Lang. Arts/Social Studies Gr. 7


 
  
 
 
 
 

Language Arts

This year we will be using the Holt Elements of Literature text program, adopted in 2002, as the state budget removed the funding for the new series we were to pilot this year.

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Class Tutorials for each story, designed by Mr. Curry

 
HOLT Literature and Language Arts 

Chapter 1: Plot


Chapter 2: Characters


Chapter 3: Theme

Chapter 4: Point of View

  • Names / Nombres by Julia Alvarez


Chaptrer 5: Prose and Poetry

  • Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
  • A Mason-Dixon Memory by Clifton Davis
  • I’m Nobody! by Emily Dickinson
  • Poems by Anna Lee Walters and Gogisgi / Carroll Arnett
  • Poems by Langston Hughes
  • I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young Lee
  • Ode to Family Photographs by Gary Soto
  • Father William by Lewis Carroll
  • Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
  • Poems by Robert Frost
  • Names of Horses by Donald Hall
  • Poems by E. E. Cummings
  • Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
  • For Poets by Al Young

Chapter 6: Myths and Folk Tales
  • The Myths of Greece and Rome
  • World Folk Tales

Chapter 7: Literary Criticism

  • King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone by Hudson Talbott
  • Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen
  • Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Betsy Hearne

Additional Resources

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman  Poem TutorialYouTube Animated Video 
Music Video